River of No Return (1954) - Video Detective

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Matt Calder is a rugged widower with a questionable past who decides it’s time to start a new life with his young son, Mark. But their peaceful existence is sabotaged when Matt is robbed and pistol-whipped by cold-blooded gambler Harry Weston. Unexpectedly, Weston’s fiance, Kay postpones her wedding so she can nurse Matt back to health. In his pursuit to exact revenge at any cost, Matt takes Kay and Mark on a treacherous ride down a roaring river, where they’re at the mercy of wild animals and a lawless frontier.

Original Release

04/30/1954

Cast

Name	Character

Robert Mitchum	Matt Calder
Marilyn Monroe	Kay Weston
Rory Calhoun	Harry Weston
Tommy Rettig	Mark Calder
Murvyn Vye	Dave Colby
Douglas Spencer	Sam Benson
Will Wright	Trading Post Proprietor
Don Beddoe	Ben
Arthur Shields	Minister
John Doucette	Saloon Patron

(see additional cast & crew)

Directors

Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco

Writers

Frank Fenton, Louis Lantz

Cast

Name	Character

Robert Mitchum	Matt Calder
Marilyn Monroe	Kay Weston
Rory Calhoun	Harry Weston
Tommy Rettig	Mark Calder
Murvyn Vye	Dave Colby
Douglas Spencer	Sam Benson
Will Wright	Trading Post Proprietor
Don Beddoe	Ben
Arthur Shields	Minister
John Doucette	Saloon Patron
Barbara Nichols
Roy Bucko	Prospector
Al Haskell	Wagon Driver
Jarma Lewis	Saloon Dancer
Harry Seymour	Pianist